Militia Lists and Musters

Book - Ref: FHP-019

During the 18th and early 19th centuries parishes were liable to provide a small number of men from training, but these were initially chosen from most able-bodied men. Thus lists of all those eligible had to be drawn up, from which the ballot was made, and where these survive (between 1757 and 1831) they provide a quasi census. The Posse Comitatus (1798) and Lev

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